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Other Side Of Maleficent

I have been looking forward to Maleficent with equal amounts of anticipation and dread. On one hand, she is easily my favorite Disney villain, so cold and so pure, and I want desperately to see more of her and her back-story. On the other hand, she is easily my favorite Disney villain, and I would hate to see her parodied, taken lightly or ultimately destroyed in a film that does not understand this great character. The good news is that this film almost gets it right; but that is also the bad news.

BCDB Hits 150K Entries

It took a while, but we are finally here! The Big Cartoon DataBase hit the milestone of 150,000 entries earlier today with the addition of the cartoon The Polish Language. This film was added to BCDB on May 9th, 2014 at 4:23 PM.

Warner Brings Back Animated Stone-Age Family

Funnyman Will Ferrell and partner Adam McKay are working on bringing back everyone’s favorite stone-age family. The duo’s production company Gary Sanchez Productions is in development on a new Flintstones animated feature.

Disney To Feast In France

The follow up to Disney’s 2013 Academy Award Winning short Paperman has been announced, and it will premiere at France’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Titled The Feast, the short looks to be based on the same stylized CG techniques used on last years Paperman, a more natural and hand-drawn look to computer animation.

Renegades of Animation: Pat Sullivan

Pat Sullivan became famous worldwide for his creation of Felix the Cat. What most animation histories gloss over is Sullivan’s checkered past and longtime standing as a wildcat renegade. He didn’t follow the rules. And he made damn sure to fully protect his intellectual properties.

This depends on whether you are asking about a fully-animated film or one with some drawn animation.

If it's just the first film with drawn animation, the U.S.A. wins with Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (The Vitagraph Company of America; released April 6, 1906). J. Stuart Blackton was the producer-director-animator. "Generally considered to be the first animated film," says a production note in BCDB, although it must be noted that there is some live action (of Blackton's hand!) involved.

This was five years to the month before Winsor McCay produced his first animated cartoon, Little Nemo!

However...

If you're talking about the first cartoon consisting entirely of drawn animation, the first was Fantasmagorie (Gaumont Studios; released August 17, 1908). Émil Cohl was the producer, director and animator of this French cartoon!

Here's one of the production notes: "Fully animated with no live action, generally considered to be the first fully-animated film."

Take your pick.

But...

If you consider stop-action animated films (not just drawn animation) to be cartoons as well, the very, very first was The Humpty Dumpty Circus. This was released by The Vitagraph Company of America in 1898!!! Sorry, but all copies have disappeared.